We want a small range of rapid vibrations, and we know no better than to make the whole series leading up to them. It is as though, in order to sound some little shrill octave of pipes in an organ, we were obliged to depress every key and every pedal,... The Principles of Physics - Page 586by Alfred Payson Gage - 1901 - 638 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1888 - 464 pages
...until at length we get such rates of vibration as our retina is constructed for, and we are satisfied. We want a small range of rapid vibrations, and we...key and every pedal, and to blow a young hurricane. " I have purposely selected as examples the more perfect methods of obtaining artificial light, wherein... | |
| Sir Oliver Lodge - Electricity - 1889 - 454 pages
...constructed for, and we are satisfied. But how wasteful and indirect and empirical is the process. We want a small range of rapid vibrations, and we...key and every pedal, and to blow a young hurricane. s 150. I have purposely selected as examples the more perfect methods of obtaining artificial light,... | |
| Alfred Payson Gage - Physics - 1890 - 80 pages
...but simply superpose the higher upon the lower; hence the lower vibrations are wasted. "It is as if, in order to sound some little shrill octave of pipes...an organ, we were obliged to depress every key and pedal, and to blow a young hurri921. What animal may yet teach us how to produce light-waves with little... | |
| Edwin James Houston - Electric measurements - 1893 - 460 pages
...constructed for, and we are satisfied. But how wasteful and indirect and empirical is the process. We want a small range of rapid vibrations, and we...up to them. It is as though, in order to sound some littleshrill octave of pipes man or^aa, we were obliged to depress every key and every pedal, and to... | |
| Alfred Payson Gage - Physics - 1898 - 420 pages
...us, because no other has any effect on our retina ; but we do not know how to produce vibrations at this rate. . . . We want a small range of rapid vibrations,...key and every pedal, and to blow a young hurricane." — LODGE. The production of light by very rapidly alternating currents seems to give promise of success... | |
| Alfred Payson Gage - Physics - 1898 - 416 pages
...us, because no other has any effect on our retina; but we do not know how to produce vibrations at this rate. . . . We want a small range of rapid vibrations,...obliged to depress every key and every pedal, and in blow a young hurricane." — LODGE. The production of light by very rapidly alternating currents... | |
| John Joseph Fahie - Radio - 1900 - 390 pages
...constructed for, and we are satisfied. But how wasteful and indirect and empirical is the process ! We want a small range of rapid vibrations, and we...some little shrill octave of pipes in an organ, we are obliged to depress every key and every pedal, and to blow a young hurricane. I have purposely selected... | |
| John Joseph Fahie - Telegraph, Wireless - 1901 - 414 pages
...constructed for, and we are satisfied. But how wasteful and indirect and empirical is the process ! We want a small range of rapid vibrations, and we...some little shrill octave of pipes in an organ, we are obliged to depress every key and every pedal, and to blow a young hurricane. I have purposely selected... | |
| John Joseph Fahie - Radio - 1902 - 382 pages
...constructed for, and we are satisfied. But how wasteful and indirect and empirical is the process ! We want a small range of rapid vibrations, and we...series leading up to them. It is as though, in order to souud some little shrill octave of pipes in an organ, we are obliged to depress every key and every... | |
| James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - Periodicals - 1891 - 924 pages
...We will then be no longer in the awkward position thus graphically described by Professor Lodge : " It is as though, in order to sound some little shrill...key and every pedal, and to blow a young hurricane." THE SPECTROSCOPE IN ASTRONOMY. ALMOST every one is familiar with the history of the spectroscope in... | |
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